Adjustable garment.



W. A. DIELHENN.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED Hm. 1, 1909.

Patented Dec. 14, 1%09.

WILLIAM A. DIELHENN, 0F MASSILLON, OHIO.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

Application filed February 1, 1909. Serial No. 475,315.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that l, VILLTAM A. DIEL- nnNX, a citizen of the United States, resident of Massillon. county of Stark, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Garments, oi which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein eX- plained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to adjustable garments and particularly to petticoats which are adjustable at the 'aistband. and it consists of certain improvements in the adjustable petticoat structure shown, described and claimed in my pending application Serial No. 454,676, filed September 25, 1.908.

The object of the invention is to confine the shirred portion of the garment within certain definite limits whereby such sh irring may be made as little objectionable as possible.

'lhe annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means however constituting but one of vari ous mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be applied.

In said annexed drawing:-Figure l is a fragmentary perspective of a pctt-icoat embodying my invention, illustrating the form of the upper portion of the petticoat, and showing same in its non-adjusted position. Fig. 2 is a View similar to that of Fig. 1, showing the petticoat in an adjusted position. Fig. 3, is a. fragmentary side elevation of the petticoat showing a. portion of the pocket broken away to disclose more clearly the adjustable end of the adjusting member. Fig. 4 is a section taken upon the plane indicated by line IVIV, in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing, A is a main or body portion of the petticoat composed preferably of a plurality of gores, as shown, and formed at the middle of the rear with a placket (1. Suitable fastening devices o a are provided for closing the placket. A waistband a is provided along the upper edge of the petticoat, this band being preferably sewed upon the inner sides of the gores and along the upper edges thereof in the manner shown and described in the above named application. The front edges of the two rearmost gores c a? are detached from. the waistband to form an opening into the pocket formed by such gores and said waistband. In this pocket is placed an adjusting member B, which is of greaterlength 'than the pocket and which has its rear end preferably secured in the vicinity of the placket. The front or free end of the adjusting band or member may therefore project from the pocket as at a. The. remainder of the band is loose in the pocket and by grasping the free end thereof and the upper edge of the petticoat at the pocket, the latter may be shirred as shown in Fig. 2 and such free end be caused to project from such pocket more or less, as may be desired. The said free end is furthermore provided with a plurality of eyelets 7). These eyelets are complementary to a fastening member B shown in the drawing as a hook. This fastening member is permanently secured in the immediate vicinity of the open ing of the pocket, and the band may be secured thereto at various points longitudinally thereof, as will be readily understood. After the garment has been adjusted to fit a given sized waist, the projecting or over hanging portion of the band B may be cut ofl intermediately of the eyelet which is in engagement with the hook and the next eyelet located outwardly with reference thereto, for the reason that the garment once having been adjusted, ordinarily needs no further adjustment. t

It will be understood that the arrange ment above described is preferably applied to the other side of the garment, as well as to that side shown with such arrangement.

The front end of the pocket is preferably made to terminate at a point substantially midway between the gore and the middle of the front of the garment, when the latter is in its normal or unadjusted position. When. the adjustment is resorted to, thcrctore, all of the shirring will be confined to that part of the waistband back of the middle of the sides and therefore to the least objectionable part thereof, it being the aim, in these garments, to preserve a smooth and unrufilcd appearance and form at the hips. By placing the fixed of the two complementary fastening members in the immediate vicinity of the pocket end, all of the shirring is confined to that part of the waistband at the pocket, so that such shit-ring can not thereafter, creep forward and reach a point. at or near the hips where it would be objectionable.

YVh-ut I claim therefore and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:-

In an adjustable garment having a rear placket, the combination of a pocket adjacent to and parallel with the Waistband of lthe garment and having one end terminating at the placket and the other end open and terminating subst'antial l 1 midway between such placket and the mi die of the front of the garment; an adjusting band ioeseiy plaemi in said poeke having one err-ii feeiiened at rear of the garment near said placket and the ozher end free Zuni adapted to 31mm [rem the open end of pocket;

and one er two complementary fastening 15 members fixedly secured to the garment im' mediately adjacent to seicl open pocket end, said projecting end of the adjusting band being provided with a plurality of fixed ins-- tening members each eemplementaryto said 2t first named fastening member.

Signed by me, this 538' day of January, 1909.

\VKLLIAM A. DIETIEIEHH." 

